Anna Karenina recommendation for application
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Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" has been a favorite of mine, and I believe that if you read it, it would become one of yours as well. The novel was deemed a "perfect piece of art" by Tolstoy's contemporary, Dostoyevsky, and even now, proves to be a timeless and enduring piece of literature, capturing the stark questions of life and faith, each word bearing a great responsibility of expression and depth. "Anna Karenina" paints an unforgettable portrait of a love so powerful that it dominates the very existance of all those connected to the lovers' tale. It is often thought to be the most personal of Tolstoy's works. In its portrayal of man's eternal struggle with the meaning of life and faith, we are confronted with the most relevant question of social hipocrisay and it's influence on the lives of a few extremely well-developed and sensitive characters. This theme coincides with Tolstoy's own controversial search for spirituality, which lends extremely authentic insight into the human psyche.
Anna and Vronsky's tumultuous affair captures the many facets of a relationship under the critical eye of society, and Tolstoy takes great care to portray every detail of thought with unfathomable poignancy. As a sympathetic character, the reader grows attached to the idea that Anna's flaws in virtue are not truly flaws at all, because they are incited by the most noble cause of all: Love. As readers, we, as Tolstoy did himself, fall in love with Anna, and understand her plight.
Much of the meaning of the book relies on the parallels between the stories of Anna and Vronsky and Levin and Kitty...